Episode 1 The Code

Hello, and welcome to a brand-new series of The Code.

At the end of the last series, the jackpot had climbed to £9,500.

The highest cash prize we've had on The Code so far,

and that is what is locked in this safe!

To open the safe and win the money,

contestants just need to crack a three-digit code.

Every time someone fails,

more money goes into the safe so the jackpot gets higher and higher.

Let's meet our first team hoping to crack The Code.

-Welcome, welcome. Lovely to see you.

-Welcome. Hello!

-Carolyn and David.

-Hello, Matt, nice to see you.

-How are you?

-Very well.

-And you're from my hometown?

-Yes, Woodley Heights!

You're actually from...not just Reading,

but the same bit of Reading where I grew up?

-Yes.

-Absolutely, yes.

Tell me how you know each other in the first instance.

Well, I placed an advert

in the local lonely hearts column of the local newspaper,

and I went through all the previous adverts and picked out all

the words that the women had used in their adverts,

put them together in my advert, and second caller was Carolyn!

What appealed to you about his advert?

-Was it the words he was using?

-Oh, yeah, it was all caring, loving,

kind, funny...

-Then I met him.

-And it was a massive disappointment!

And tell me about what you do, what do you do with yourselves?

Well, I'm just retired, and I was a trauma nurse.

-You're still working, aren't you?

-Yes, I'm a hypnotherapist.

-A hypnotherapist?

-Yes, so look in the eyes, don't look at the face...

This is like a Jedi mind trick,

you could just end up walking into the safe without answering any

-questions at all!

-Well, I sort of...

-Nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh...

-Yeah!

Fantastic stuff.

Let's just remind ourselves of what happened at the end of last series,

because that's why we have such a lot of money in the safe right now.

We had a number of teams, one after the other,

who failed to break the code.

That means that we start this series with the biggest jackpot that we've

ever had on The Code. £9,500.

-Yes!

-To open the safe and to win that £9,500,

you need to enter a code that is made up of three unique numbers.

Every time you pick the right answer, you can select a number,

and the computer will reveal whether or not it's in the code.

But be warned - if you pick a wrong answer, you will be out of the game.

-It's instant elimination.

-Right.

-On your way back to Woodley.

-Oh, thanks!

-Yes!

It's an easy game to play. It's a very hard game to win,

as we found out, and as the teams last series found out.

-Are you ready?

-Yes.

-Ready.

-Let's set the code!

Right, three blanks that you want to turn into the three numbers of your

code. Before we start, though,

I should introduce the person who

will be shedding light on the questions and answers

throughout the show, our resident clever clogs, Lesley Brewis.

Hello. And a very warm welcome to the show.

Do you know, you're our 50th team so far, you're the 30th pair.

If you win today, you'll be the first married couple to do that.

-Yes!

-That's what we want you to do, we want you to be record breakers!

Yes, we can do that!

Are you ready, Carolyn, David?

-let's have a look at your first three answers.

-Right.

-OK.

No real link between them, but...

-No...

-..only one of those

will be the correct answer,

-that's the one that you're trying to find.

-Right.

At this point in the game, you could open all three answers

to reveal the questions. So let's crack straight on with it, and

let's have a look at the question behind the first one.

Art Galleries...

Well, the Grand Bazaar, isn't that like a...

-Market?

-A market.

-Like a big market, something like that?

I don't think it's an art gallery...

-We get the chance to look at all three...

-Yeah.

So let's have a look at the question behind John the Baptist.

-Now, I think it was...

-I think it was...

-John the Baptist.

-John the Baptist certainly lost his head.

-Yeah.

Well, don't lose your head just yet...

-No.

-..because you can still look at the question behind The Grapes.

-It was The Nag's Head.

-That was your favourite show.

It was the Nag's Head. Yeah.

-OK, so we can cancel that one out.

-Yeah, we can cancel that one.

-Should we go for John the Baptist?

-Yep, OK.

-Definitely.

We're going to lock in John the Baptist.

OK, if that is the correct answer, it will go green.

You get, then, to choose a number for your code.

If it's wrong, I'm afraid you will be on your way home.

-Is John the Baptist the correct answer?

-Green!

-Yes.

-Come on, green! Yes!

-Yes!

-It is.

-Yes!

-It is the correct answer.

-Lesley...

-You're off to a good start.

John the Baptist has his head delivered on a plate to Salome,

because she'd asked Herod to do that after... She'd danced so beautifully

for him that he said she could have anything she wanted.

Carolyn, you were very quick with the correct answers

to the wrong ones on the screen.

Not art galleries but just as you said, markets.

Only Fools And Horses, exactly as you said - The Nag's Head.

-The Grapes is a pub in Early Doors, TV series.

-Oh!

-Ah.

-Right.

-So not only the correct answer, but knowing...

-Knowing the ones, yes.

-..knowing the answers to the other ones as well.

You don't get extra points for that, I'm afraid.

If you can do that ten times, you're guaranteed to win!

-OK!

-But before that, it's time to pick a number.

They're all there, all the numbers on the keypad.

-Ten numbers, 0 through to 9.

-Mm.

Three unique numbers make up today's code.

Which one are you going to go for first, and why?

Yeah. We've got four children between us.

-Yeah, go on, let's go for four.

-Yep, number four.

-Four children between you?

-Yep.

Let's find out, is the number four in your code?

Is it there in the first box?

-It is!

-Yes! We're doing this!

The number four is there!

Slap bang in the first box, you're not messing around today, are you?

-Nope, no!

-OK, that's great,

great in many respects because you've got off to a flying start

with your numbers, but, on the other side of that,

-things do become trickier because, as before...

-Mm.

..you'll see three answers but this time,

you will only see the questions behind two of them before you have

to make a decision. Are you ready to see your next three answers?

-Go for it, Matt!

-Come on!

Let's see your next three answers...

At this stage, it does become a little bit more important which

-question you choose to see first.

-Do you know anything...

-Well, colt could be to do with horses...

-Horses, or guns?

-Or colour?

-Yeah.

Again, yellow could be doing with colour, or...and plod?

-Well...

-I can only think of a policeman.

-Policeman.

Shall we go with colt first?

-OK.

-All right.

-Let's go with that.

-Let's go, try colt.

We're going to have a look at the question behind colt.

-Well, I know a colt is a young horse...

-A gelding is a male...

-But whether it's a female...

-..that's not a male any more...

We'll leave that one for a minute.

-You don't have to make a decision just yet.

-Yep, right.

-You choose the next.

-Plod looks interesting, let's go with plod.

OK, we're going to have a look at the question behind plod.

-I think it is Plod.

-It makes sense, I mean, I know there is a PC Plod,

-and...

-Yeah.

-..it's always been a term for policeman.

It was. Cause female...

My instinct is that a colt is actually a male.

No, I think it's a gelding for a male horse.

-Or actually, colt could just be any young horse, male or female.

-Yeah.

Whereas that's saying specifically a female, so OK,

let's write colt out.

-I think Plod is right.

-Yeah?

-Mr Plod.

We're going to lock in Plod as the correct one

for what is the name of the policeman in Enid Blyton...

-Absolutely sure?

-Absolutely sure, lock it in.

Let's lock it in.

-Come on.

-We want that to be the correct answer.

However, it means we can now have a look at the question behind yellow,

-and you'll either feel much better or much worse.

-OK.

-Yeah.

-Green.

-Oh, OK!

-Absolutely certain about that, so you feel...

-No, but I'm about 98%.

-So...that makes you feel much better?

-Yeah.

-Yes, yeah.

-OK.

-Yeah.

-We want Plod to turn green.

Come on, come on, come on!

-Yes!

-Yes!

-Woo-hoo-hoo!

-Congratulations, it was the correct answer.

-Excellent, yes!

-Lesley?

-Nicely done. You worked that out very well,

you remembered that PC Plod is the policeman in Noddy.

In France, you know Noddy is known as Oui-Oui, because he nods?

-Oui-Oui?

-Oui, oui. Yes, yes.

You thought that the Geography questions might have been green.

-Green is actually Science and Nature.

-Oh.

-The Geography questions are blue.

-Ah!

And a colt. Now, David, you said that you thought that a colt

might be a male young horse under five years old. That is correct.

Colts are the equivalent of the correct answer, which is the filly.

Do you know that thoroughbred horses in the northern hemisphere all have

an official birthday of 1st of January?

-No matter when they were born?

-They must have terrific parties, then.

-With all the horses.

-With all of the horses at the same time...

Exactly, yeah.

I wonder what they get up to.

I don't know, I've never been to a horse birthday.

Anyway, Carolyn and David, you get to choose another number.

Four has gone, you got that first time.

Now you've got nine others to choose from.

Where do you want to go next?

-What do you reckon?

-I'm kind of drawn to three...

-What do you think?

-Yeah, I quite like three.

Any particular reason you're drawn to three?

-It's just intuitive.

-Intuitive, and the hypnotherapy,

do you think that's playing a part here?

Can you influence it somehow from back here?

Well, the trouble is...if it was a human being that had selected the

code, I might be able... As it's a computer, it's a bit tricky!

No chance! No chance at all!

Let's find out, is number three in your second box?

-No.

-No. It's not there.

Is it in the third and final box?

-No.

-No, it's not.

-Oh.

-Tough luck.

-Right.

-Well, I say tough luck,

-but, actually, it's good.

-Yeah.

-You're getting rid of the numbers.

-Yep.

-Carolyn, David, are you ready for your next three answers?

-Yes.

-Yes.

-Let's have a look.

-Right.

-Now, one correct answer there, that's the one you're looking

-for. You get to see two at a time, as you know.

-Yeah.

-Which one would you like to look at first?

-Chrysanthemum,

well, you're the one in plants and you know all the plants and things.

Yeah, JK Rowling, I mean...

I just... It could be Harry Potter questions.

Yeah, but it could also be...

about other books she's written, and...

-Right.

-OK, let's go with Chrysanthemum.

-Keen gardeners?

-Yes, we have two allotments

and a very large wildlife garden.

And have you grown chrysanthemums?

No, I hate them!

Let's find out, let's have a look at the question behind chrysanthemum.

I think it's a lily.

It's quite a small flower, a chrysanthemum.

No, it isn't, it's a huge thing, with lots of...things.

-Is it?

-Yes!

-It doesn't sound like the Emperor's...

-No, it doesn't.

-You don't have to make a decision just yet.

Where do we want to go next?

Because BBC Four is a TV station,

-and you've got a radio station...

-Yeah.

-Let's go JK Rowling.

-JK Rowling.

We're going to have a look at the question behind JK Rowling.

That doesn't sound like JK Rowling, even though she wrote some books...

-Under a different name, didn't she?

-..under a different name.

-I'm not convinced either of them are correct.

-No, I'm not,

I think they're the two wrong answers.

I think we should go BBC Four as being the correct answer.

All right, we're going to go BBC Four as the correct,

even though we don't know the question!

-You're flying blind here.

-Yep.

Well, there's no coming back from this, certainly,

-if this is not right but we want to lock in BBC Four...

-BBC Four.

-BBC Four, yes.

-..as the correct answer.

-Yeah.

Now we get to see the question behind BBC Four,

-which is either going to be tremendous or a bit sickening.

-Yeah.

Well, you might not know the answer, but let's have a look anyway.

Yeah, it's not BBC Four, it's BBC Three.

-They've done those little lines...

-That's right, yeah.

-..and I think we

-got it wrong. OK!

-Shall we find out?

-Yeah.

Is BBC Four the correct answer?

No, oh!

Let's find out which is the correct answer.

If it's JK Rowling, I need to buy some more books!

-Oh, it is.

-It's the flower you hate!

-It's because I hate it!

-If only you had grown some on the allotment!

-True.

-We hate them even more now!

-Yeah, definitely.

-Aw, I'm so sorry.

Lesley, talk us through those.

I'm really sorry, yes, you were right to say the chrysanthemum

is a big, blousy, in-your-face flower.

It's a stylised version that's the emblem of the Emperor.

-It's 16 petals in the front, 16 petals behind.

-Ah!

It's usually orange, or gold. So we'll look at the wrong answers.

You knew almost immediately when you saw BBC Four on the screen.

-Yeah.

-It is BBC Three

that stopped television broadcast and moved online.

Then JK Rowling - nothing to do with any of those books.

The English Roses, Sex, Mr Peabody's Apples,

written by Madonna.

-Really?

-Very diverse publication output.

-Wow.

-Oh!

What can I say, Carolyn, David?

-You've been absolutely fantastic.

-We've had a fantastic time.

-Thank you.

-Take all of my best wishes back to little old Woodley...

-Yeah.

-..but afraid that's all you can take back.

We have nothing else to offer.

You failed to break the code,

-and, sadly, we have to say goodbye to you.

-Aww.

-Thank you.

-Bye, Lesley!

So sad, Carolyn and David.

Just the wrong question at the wrong time, I suppose -

but their loss is our next team's gain,

because another £500 is added to the jackpot.

So, let's meet our next team hoping to crack the code.

Good to see you, Stuart, how are you?

Thank you very much, very well, thank you, Matt.

-Chris.

-Hi, Matt.

-Lovely to see you both here.

Tell me where you're from.

I'm from Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands.

And I'm from Gloucester, Matt.

Right, and how do you guys know each other?

We're both police officers, both work in West Midlands Police,

and I work as a trainer of trainers in West Midlands Police,

and I trained Chris to be a trainer.

So you're a trainer of trainers?

-Yes.

-And you're a trainer.

I was a trainer, I'm on a career break at the moment.

-OK, right!

-Yeah.

And do you do stuff outside of being cops or training cops?

Yeah, like, a lot of hobbies, I like to play golf.

You see, I can't stand golf, I'm a chucker, I'm a club chucker.

And how about you? You're taking a career break?

Yes, I'm on a career break at the moment.

-Why are you doing that?

-A number of things - travelling,

just sort of taking a bit of a break away from having done 12 years.

You don't play golf, though?

I do play golf.

He wiped the floor with me.

Right. The good news for you guys, at least,

is that the team before you failed to crack the code.

Not great news for them -

but it does mean for you that another £500 is added to the safe,

making a total of £10,000.

The highest jackpot we've ever had.

Let's reset the code.

Now, as you know, what you want to do is turn those three blanks

into three numbers of your code. That will open the safe,

and it means that you will get your hands on that money. Are you ready?

-Yes.

-Ready as we'll ever be, Matt.

-Right.

Let's have a look at your first three answers.

Remember, only one of those is correct -

that's the one you're trying to find.

At this point of the game,

you can open all three answers to reveal the questions.

So, let's have a look at the first one.

The question behind Royal Ascot.

I would disagree with it being Royal Ascot.

-Really?

-I would say more people go to Cheltenham,

I think, because that one is an extra day.

-Oh, OK.

-Stuart, Chris, we get the chance to look at all three, here,

so let's have a look at the question behind York Minster.

My son goes to university in York.

-OK.

-And I know that the cathedral in York is known as York Minster.

Before we have to make a decision, we can have a look

at the question behind Aquarius.

-Well, that's Pisces, isn't it?

-Pisces, Pisces, yeah.

I think we should go with York Minster, what do you think?

Yeah, I would, I would, I'm about 90%,

I would go with York Minster as being the correct one.

-Happy to lock that in?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-OK, let's lock in York Minster as our correct answer.

If it is the correct answer,

it will go green.

So let's find out, is York Minster our correct answer?

-Yes!

-It is, well done.

-Well done, mate.

-Absolutely bang on.

Well done.

York Minster's central tower collapsed in 1407,

and it almost did again in the '70s

but they reinforced it so it's going to stay upright for a lot longer.

Let's look at the wrong answers.

Royal Ascot -

now, you mentioned Cheltenham races as a possible correct answer

to this question. Cheltenham and Royal Ascot are close,

but they're nowhere near the correct answer to this question,

which is Wimbledon.

Wimbledon gets about 500,000 people

across the 14 days of the event and last time at Wimbledon,

they sold over 139,000 portions of strawberries.

Wow!

Finally, the fish is not Aquarius, Aquarius, the water carrier,

you knew all of this, Pisces is the correct answer.

Well done, gentlemen,

we are on our way.

A correct answer means you get to choose a number from the keypad.

There are ten numbers, zero through to nine,

which one do you want to pick first?

I think, Matt, in the first instance, the number eight.

That's jumping out at you, is it?

-It's calling me.

-Is the number eight in your code,

is it there in the first box?

No, it's not. Is it there in the second box?

No number eight. Is it there in the final box?

-It's not there.

-OK, all right with that.

-OK.

Eight is gone. Are you ready for your next three answers?

-Definitely.

-Yes.

-Let's have a look.

Only one of those is correct,

that's the one that you're trying to find -

and we can look at all three answers.

So, let's have a look at the question behind travel.

I've got a feeling that's private detective.

Detective agency.

I don't think it's travel.

-I might be wrong.

-OK.

-It's only a...

-I've got no clue.

We can have a look at all three, here, so a bit of context.

Let's find out the question behind the stars, please.

I've never, I've never heard... Colloquially...

-People sit in the gods, don't they?

-Yeah, the gods, not the stars.

When you're booking tickets, I've never heard that expression,

so, the gods, we think that's a wrong one?

I think that might be a wrong one, yeah.

Let's have a look at the question behind in space,

see how that makes you feel.

I don't know, think about Major Tim Peake,

he was up there and did quite a lot of things

that were kind of record-breaking.

The thing that I would say about A Glorious Dawn is in space,

you would see a glorious dawn, wouldn't you?

You'd probably see quite a few in a day.

Yeah. So, that, to me, looks like the one that I'd go for.

But I'm going on a hunch.

So, shall we lock in "in space"?

-Yes.

-Yes.

-We're going to lock in "in space".

That we want to be our correct answer,

we want it to turn green.

If it does, you get to choose another number for your code.

If it's wrong, I'm afraid you're on your way home.

Is "in space" the correct answer?

Good work. Well done.

Seriously, I was worried about that one, I was.

You needn't have worried - space, exactly right.

It wasn't anything to do with Tim Peake -

there was a vinyl record went up on a turntable,

taken up by a special high attitude balloon.

-Oh, right.

-And they played the record in space.

It was organised by Jack White's record company.

-Oh, OK.

-Oh, OK.

Travel agency, you dismissed this very quickly.

In fact, Chris, the correct answer, as you said, is a detective agency.

Pinkerton's a famous crime investigation

-and private security firm that still exists.

-Oh, OK.

And the last one here, the highest seats, Stuart,

you were straight in there with this one - it's the gods.

Fantastic stuff.

Well, I'm glad at least one of you knew

about the Pinkerton Detective Agency.

Otherwise I would have been very disappointed -

but, you get the chance to choose another number from the keypad.

Eight is gone, which one do you want to go with?

Chris, this is your go, this time.

I'm going to go with four, Matt.

Is the number four in your code?

Let's have a look. Is it there in the first box?

It's not there. How about the second box?

No. How about in that third and final box?

No. It's not there.

He's doing very well, isn't he, boss?

I think so, at the moment, yeah.

We'll have a full appraisal at the end.

-OK.

-Is that all right? Good.

Once again we get three answers,

and we'll get to see all three questions.

There's a lot to be said for that.

Let's have a look at your next three answers.

Let's start at the top -

and the question behind Leonardo, please.

Michelangelo - that's definitely wrong.

We have a fan, clearly.

There's a reason why you've got him on board.

I grew up with Turtles.

-Grew up with the Turtles?

-Me and my brother,

we used to religiously watch that, it's Michelangelo, 100%.

OK!

Let's have a look at the question behind jamboree.

I was a Scout leader.

-Were you?

-I was, yes.

-I didn't know that.

I taught the Scouts before I taught you, Chris.

OK!

And that's looking pretty good for me at the moment.

-I would have said that's a good one.

-That's looking strong, we feel.

Let's have a look at the question behind Plaid Cymru.

-No.

-SNP.

-SNP.

-SNP.

-SNP.

With you and your...

-..Turtles knowledge!

-Turtles knowledge!

I'm a bit worried about that, to be honest with you.

Can we change partners at this point?

No, it's too late, there's no going back now.

For me, jamboree is...

-It's definitely jamboree.

-Yeah.

-We've got to lock it in.

-OK, yes.

-You're happy to lock in jamboree?

-100%.

-We'll lock that in, please.

Let's hope you haven't got your Turtles mixed up.

Is jamboree our correct answer?

It is, well done, gentlemen.

Well done.

Yes, Stuart, your scouting history serving you well, there.

Jamboree - the origin of the word is not clear,

but Baden-Powell decided that that would be the word

to describe a gathering,

a noisy gathering of boys in the first jamboree

which was held in 1920 at Kensington Olympia.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles question -

well done, Chris, your knowledge of Turtles.

Do you remember all of the designations of the Turtles?

Donatello does machines.

-Yeah.

-Michelangelo is a party dude.

-Correct.

-Um...

Leonardo, the leader of the group?

Leonardo leads, and Raphael is cool but crude.

Yes!

-I bet you never thought...

-What a wasted youth.

Exactly - you never thought that would come in handy, but it has.

And Plaid Cymru not the answer here -

Mhairi Black an MP for the SNP.

20 when she was elected, she is now 22,

and she is the baby of the House.

That means, now, Stuart and Chris, you get to pick another number.

Two down. Somewhere in there, from the remaining eight,

three of those make up your code.

Which one do you want to pick next?

My choice, I'm going to go with number two, this time.

Only even numbers so far.

Is the number two in the first box of your code?

No. Is it there in the second box?

No number two. Is it there in the third and final box?

It's not there. Two is no longer part of the game.

Neither is four, nor eight, and as you know,

we're playing at the easiest level.

Are you ready for your next three answers?

-Yes.

-Yeah.

-Let's have a look.

Again, we get to see all three questions.

So, let's start with boa constrictor.

I don't think that's right.

The reason that I don't think it's right is, a Latin name,

Boa might be Latin, but I don't think constrictor is a Latin name.

I'm kind of thinking constrictor sounds almost a little bit Latin.

-Well, we get to compare it with the other two.

-Yeah.

So, let's have a look at the question behind Theodore Roosevelt.

Right, the only thing I'd say - and again this is a hunch -

is in Night At The Museum,

Robin Williams plays Teddy Roosevelt

and he speaks with a very, very refined English accent.

My son studies US politics, so...

..I wish I had him now, not you.

Thanks(!)

-Two we're not sure about...

-Thanks, mate.

-..I think.

Let's have a look at the question behind loch.

I am thinking that loch is not the answer of that.

-OK.

-I'm thinking Glen.

-Glen. Yeah.

-Boa constrictor, I thought, was probably,

-when you said earlier on it wasn't right....

-Mm.

I thought, "Do you know, that could be right."

Let's go boa constrictor. Boa constrictor.

Boa constrictor.

Let's lock in boa constrictor.

Is boa constrictor

our correct answer?

Well done, gentlemen, well done.

-Phew!

-Yeah!

Yes, boa constrictor is from Latin,

you were a bit shaky on that to begin with.

Boa constrictor coming from the word meaning "compress".

Looking at the answers that were incorrect -

Theodore Roosevelt, you remembered correctly

he was in Night At The Museum and spoke perfect English

and so he should have done,

because he was born in New York City to an English-speaking family.

-The correct answer here is Martin Van Buren.

-Oh!

Martin Van Buren was the first American president

to have been born in the United States of America,

but his family was Dutch, and that was his first language.

Stuart, you worked out that this is not loch.

The correct answer is Glen.

Glen is at the start of about 25% of names of distilleries in Scotland.

Clearly a lot of time spent at the bar

researching that particular question - but it paid off.

And you get to choose another number to try in your code.

Two, four and eight have gone.

Will it be another even number?

I'm going to go with zero, Matt.

Let's find out if zero is there in your code.

Is it in the first box?

No. Is it there in the second box?

It is.

Finally we have one.

Zero there, slap bang in the middle.

Things do become a little bit trickier now.

As before, you will see three answers,

but now you will only see the questions

for two of those answers

before having to commit. So, you won't quite have the full picture.

-Are you ready?

-Yeah.

We'll take it up a notch.

Let's see your next three answers.

Which one would you like to go for first?

Francis Chichester doesn't mean anything to me.

I think that's going to be about a ship.

Cambridge could be University, boat race.

Anything. York and Rome, I could see that being quite specific.

You pick one and I'll pick one.

So, you go first.

Cambridge first, please, Matt.

Going to go for Cambridge first - let's have a look at the question.

Do you know, I've got a really bad admission to make here.

We went to the cinema as a family to see this,

and myself and my daughter

didn't go in to see this film,

we left my wife and my son to go in,

and we went to see Paddington instead.

That's not going to help you.

I've seen the film.

Um...

I'm pretty sure he was a student at Cambridge,

the only thing that's throwing me is "research" student.

-Research student.

-Well, I'll tell you what,

maybe the best thing we can do is choose another answer

to have a look at, maybe that will help you a bit.

OK, I'm going to go with...

..York and Rome.

Let's have a look at the question behind York and Rome.

I haven't read it.

I don't think it's York and Rome.

I haven't read it either, I haven't seen The Theory Of Everything,

I know nothing about Francis Chichester...

But when the Paddington question comes up,

you are going to be front and centre for that.

-I'll be ready for that one.

-OK.

Well, you've seen your two questions,

you have to make a decision.

-I'd say Cambridge.

-Want to lock that in?

Lock in Cambridge, please.

-You happy with that, yeah?

-Yeah.

Seems certain, Chris seems very certain.

Let's lock in Cambridge as our correct answer.

That does mean, now that it's locked in,

we can have a look at the question behind Francis Chichester.

-I think he's about 1700s, Francis Chichester.

-OK.

-We've either got one of the...

-I'm pretty sure.

Well, let's find out, shall we?

Is Cambridge our correct answer?

This is happening by deduction.

Lesley.

Cambridge was the home of Stephen Hawking

as a research student -

though he had done his undergraduate degree at Oxford.

Francis Chichester, you recognised, Chris,

that he was from the world of sailing.

In 1967, Chichester was the first person

to sail single-handedly round the world

by the Clipper route. The correct answer, not Chichester, then,

but Donald Crowhurst.

Donald Crowhurst went on the Golden Globe yacht race, never came home.

His boat, the Teignmouth Electron,

is still where he left it by the Cayman Islands.

York and Rome, not the locations in the Dickens novel.

The correct answer - well,

it was set before and during the French Revolution,

the primary locations were London and Paris.

It's about Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton -

they look very similar,

their lives become intertwined, and at the end of the novel,

Sydney Carton takes Charles Darnay's place

even though he knows that that decision will lead to his execution.

Thank you, Lesley.

That was a great question, you did really well,

and it buys you once again the chance to choose another number

to go into the code.

Two, four, eight and zero have all gone.

-My turn.

-It's with you, Stuart.

-I'm going to go six.

-We're going to go for six.

Let's see if six is in your code.

Is it there in the first box?

No number six. We know zero is there already.

So, is six in the last box?

-It's not.

-That's all right, that's all right.

Six is not part of your code -

but it does mean you get to whittle down the numbers

a little bit further.

Are you ready for your next three answers?

-Yeah.

-Yes.

-Let's have a look.

Thomas Cromwell was the son, I think,

-of Oliver Cromwell.

-Oliver Cromwell.

-OK.

-Angry Birds, I've played a little bit on the iPhone.

I haven't.

And Sikhism, I know a little bit from RE.

OK. Shall we go Sikhism?

-Let's go Sikhism.

-Sikhism.

Let's look at the question behind Sikhism.

Right, I am pretty sure Guru Nanak founded Sikhism.

The only thing that's throwing me is the date.

Oh, OK. That one, for me at the moment, is looking quite promising.

OK, let's open another one.

I can't think about...

what the question around Angry Birds would be,

but let's go with it because we've got some kind of knowledge about it.

-Yeah, OK.

-Angry Birds.

-Let's go with Angry Birds.

Let's have a look at the question behind Angry Birds.

I'm thinking, if it's not Angry Birds,

it'll be something like Candy Crush.

I don't know who makes Angry Birds.

Neither do I. What do you think?

Did Guru Nanak found...

-Found Sikhism.

-..found Sikhism? That's the question.

-I think he did. Happy with that?

-Are you happy to lock that in?

-I think so.

-We'll lock that in, please.

We want Sikhism to be the right answer.

Let's lock it in.

And that means we can have a look, now that it's locked in,

at the question behind Thomas Cromwell.

None the wiser.

It's academic, because we can't change it anyway.

What we have to do now is find out

whether Sikhism is the correct answer.

Mate, seat of our pants, here, mate.

Far from it. Lesley.

You're playing this game brilliantly.

Sikhism was founded by Guru Nanak in the 15th century,

that nearly, nearly shook you

because you weren't sure about the dates.

Let's have a look at the incorrect answers.

Angry Birds, you discussed a couple of games here -

Candy Crush, for example.

The one that was bought for 2.5 billion was Minecraft.

-Oh!

-Minecraft, the second biggest selling game

across various platforms of all time, after Tetris.

Thomas Cromwell,

you were discussing whether he was related to Oliver Cromwell -

they are related, but they're not father and son.

-Oh, right. OK.

-The answer is Thomas More.

-Thomas More was killed in 1535.

-Oh, Sir Thomas More!

He was beheaded because he refused to take the oath of supremacy,

he'd been Henry VIII's Lord Chancellor.

Gentlemen, you are working through this.

It means that you get the chance

to choose one of the five remaining numbers.

The time has come when you have to pick an odd number.

I think we should go for five.

OK, let's see, is the number five in your code?

Is it there in the first box?

It's not. Is it there in the final box?

It is.

-Wow.

-Mm!

-OK.

Blank-0-5 is your code.

And that means it's all rather exciting.

Because you're getting closer to £10,000.

The jackpot that's sitting in the safe, there -

but things, now, are going to get really, much more difficult.

As before, we get three answers,

but you can only open one question at a time

before you have to commit and decide, is it right or is it wrong?

Stuart, Chris, are you ready for your next three answers?

-Yeah.

-Yes.

-Let's have a look.

I see what they've done there.

"We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun."

We don't just throw this together, you know!

Which one is screaming out at you?

None!

Fun is screaming out at me.

-You want some fun?

-I do want some fun.

-Let's have some fun!

-Let's have a look at the question behind fun.

-You read it?

-No, I haven't read it, have you read it?

No.

I have to say, it's too late at this stage.

-You haven't got a copy...?

-I haven't got a copy on me.

Is that the George Orwell, Big Brother...

they're watching you?

-I think it is.

-Because I think it's that one.

-Yeah.

Is the Ministry of Fun like - a bit like Joy Division,

a bit of an irony?

I have absolutely no idea, Chris.

I don't mind holding my hands up and saying, I don't know.

Do you want to lock it in?

-Yeah.

-Happy with that?

-We've had a good run.

-We've had a very good run at this point.

-You've had a lovely day out!

-We've had a lovely time!

-Yeah!

Um...

I think we've got to go with it.

-We'll go with it.

-We're going to lock in fun as our correct answer.

So, that's locked in,

there's nothing we can change about that now.

Let's have a look at the question behind joy.

I think that could be right, as well.

I think that could be right,

and I think it could be right because -

isn't Joy the film about the wonder mop?

-And Jennifer Lawrence is in it.

-Mm.

I haven't seen it.

-But it's on my Sky planner!

-Yeah.

Let's have a look at the question behind Seasons in the Sun.

I don't think that was Seasons In The Sun.

-So...

-I'm thinking Joy could possibly be right.

I'm thinking Joy could possibly be right.

-But we've had fun.

-We have.

We've had joy, we've had fun.

But is your time on The Code done?

Is fun the correct answer?

If it goes green, it means you get the chance to pick another number...

..and gives you a chance at £10,000, our biggest jackpot so far.

Is fun the correct answer?

Oh, I'm so sorry.

-Joy, isn't it?

-I'm so sorry, Stuart and Chris.

Let's find out which was the correct answer.

-It was Joy.

-Joy.

-Joy.

It was Joy. You pretty much knew it as soon as you saw it.

Oh, Stuart and Chris, bad luck.

Joy, the correct answer there - the miracle mop, the self-wringing mop,

designed by Joy, played by Jennifer Lawrence in that film.

Seasons In The Sun, that was originally Terry Jackson,

it was Christmas number one in 1999 for Westlife.

The correct answer here is Spirit In The Sky.

Spirit In The Sky, originally a hit for Norman Greenbaum.

He took it to number one,

as did Gareth Gates and the Kumars

and Doctor and the Medics in the 1980s.

In 1984, it's not the Ministry of Fun,

it's the Ministry of... Matt, do you know the answer?

-Is it Information?

-You're close.

It's the Ministry of Truth.

The Ministry of Truth, doing exactly the opposite of disseminating truth,

they spread lies.

Thank you, Lesley.

Well, I think the first thing we can do when we go home

is all go and read 1984, so we know a bit more about it -

but that doesn't help you. I'm so sorry.

Just for the sake of it, tell me,

what number would you have gone for next?

-Number one?

-Might make you feel worse,

but let's find out what the last number was in your code.

Would have won you £10,000.

Oh!

You would have got there on that question!

I'm so sorry, guys.

You've been fantastic contestants, but I'm afraid, on this occasion,

you've failed to crack the code by one question.

So we have to wish you the best and say goodbye.

-Thank you, Matt.

-Lovely to see you.

-Thank you.

-Thanks, Matt.

-Thank you, Lesley.

-Cheers. Thanks, Lesley.

Oh, that's as close as it gets.

As we say, it's an easy game to play, but very hard game to win.

As Stuart and Chris have just demonstrated -

but that is good news for our next contestants,

because the jackpot goes up by another £500,

making a total of £10,500.

Unfortunately, that's all we have time for today.

Thank you to Lesley for showering us with a wealth of knowledge.

I really enjoyed today's games.

The last pair really shows you how important it is

to pick the right question.

If they'd picked one of the other options,

things might have been very different.

It could all have been so much better. Thank you, Lesley.

Be sure to join us next time,

when a new team will discover if they have what it takes

to crack the code and win the cash.

Thanks for watching, goodbye.